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Miss Emily Keam
Arts Coordinator

Welcome back to Visual Arts at AIA!

We are so excited to get back into the art room in 2022 and have started the year exploring the rules and expectations of the art room and how to responsibly and independently use the space across all year levels. From here, all students will be moving straight into an exciting artmaking unit, focused on teaching them artmaking skills, as well as providing historical and cultural understandings of art and its purpose.

This term, the Year 2 students will be focusing on exploring the wonderful and rich history of Indigeous Australian artwork, specifically focusing on the art of the Wurundjeri people, whose land the school resides on. The Wurundjeri people used lots of symbols in their artwork, and used these to tell stories of their people and history. Our Year 2s have been exploring the art of the Wurundjeri people and using it as inspiration for creating their own symbols and telling their own stories.

Additionally, students have been thinking about how art and music makes them feel, listening to songs from First Nations Australian musicians and creating a visual response using only lines, colours, shapes and even some of the symbols we have explored. This asks students to reflect on the relationship between the elements of art, and the connection to emotion and our experiences of things like art and music.

We are looking forward to continuing investigating the art of the Wurundjeri people and other First Nations Australian people, and learning new skills along the way.

Miss Emily Keam
Arts Coordinator